How to Build Your Own Computer Reseller Online Store

​If you’re going to build your online store with an ecommerce / storefront builder package then building it will be as easy as insert, copy and paste. But if you’re going to build your computer reseller online store from scratch using a simple web development program such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web, then don’t fret.

It's not as hard as it seems. And learning any of these programs is as easy as reading the tutorials and then doing what they tell you to do.So, if you can read and type then you can build a website.

For example, when building your own computer reseller website from scratch, you’ll first need to choose a web host provider to host your site and then register your domain name with that web host.

Once you have your domain name registered and pointing to your web hosting account then you can proceed to build your internet storefront from scratch.

First, open Microsoft Expression Web.

Then click >"Open site".

Type in the domain name of your website in the dialog box: http://www.yourcomputerresellerbusiness.com

Then enter your user name and password for your web hosting account.

The first page you’ll see will be your "index page" which is your main page. Most likely, there will be a logo of your web host provider on that page. Simply erase and delete everything on that page to build from scratch.

Then it’s just a matter of adding tables, rows and columns and inserting images and product text.

A white background on commercial web sites is standard, especially for a computer reseller online store. Therefore you’ll want to leave your background white just as it is when working on a new web page.

Then you can begin to insert tables, rows and columns which will hold all of your graphic images and text in place.​

​To do so, simply click on "Table" from the top menu in Microsoft Expression Web.

(Tables consist of rows which run across your web page and columns which run up and down your web page.)

Then in the "Insert table" dialog box, select 4 to 6 rows and 3 columns, and then click ok or apply.​

You may want to leave your top 2 rows empty and open for your logo, header, top navigation, etc…

Then with your mouse, you’ll want to grab and stretch the left column out giving you a 2 to 2.5 inch margin on your left in order to have space for a left side navigation menu consisting of text or buttons. You might also need another column to the left of your left navigation column to give you a small margin from that side as well.

You’ll also want to do the same on the right side of the web page by stretching out the right margin leaving you a simple 1 to 1.5 inch margin on that side, the right side of the web page.

Then you can go ahead and insert your logo on the left upper hand corner, top row of the page. If your logo is wider than your left margin then you can merge your top columns (cells) together by highlight that row in that table and then right click and select ‘Modify’, > click ‘Merge Cells’ since rows and columns within a table are also known as cells.

Then to insert your logo within that row simply click your mouse on the top left side in the table row and click > ‘Insert’ from the top menu. Then click > ‘Picture’ > From file.​

​>Insert->Picture-->From File

Select the folder on your hard drive where your logo image has been stored, then find and select the logo and click “Insert”.

Your logo will appear on that top row, top left side.​

​Your logo can stand alone by itself on top of a graphic header image or become adjoined to the header itself.

​Then you can insert your top main navigation menu consisting of text and/or buttons.

You can create and insert a top navigation graphic image by following the same procedures for inserting your logo.

Or, you can make a text navigation image by simply creating the graphic image, inserting the text, and linking those texts to the proper web pages.​

You can add a background color to the row/cell by clicking inside the cell and then click “Cell properties”. On the background option, select a color from the color palette and then click “Apply”. Then you can also change the colors to the text titles and then link those text titles to the proper web pages.​

​Then you can add a 1, 2, or 3 product sale image header followed by your navigation menu on the left column.

You can then start adding your most popular computer products to the center of your webpage along with your newest items, and products on sale by adding more tables, rows and columns in the center tables of the webpage.

(NOTE: when using Adobe Dreamweaver, you won’t have to worry about inserting tables rows or columns. Once you insert the images, copy and paste the product text to where you want it, then Dreamweaver will automatically create the tables for you.)

Once you have your logo, top navigation menu, side navigation menu, header image and featured products in place, then you can click save and you’re done.

Clicking ‘Save’ will automatically publish your webpage live on the internet.

Then to save time, you can use that same web page template for every other page and product page on your website. Simply remove the computer product image(s) and text and then replace those with the new product image and the new product text.

Insert your ‘Buy now’ button at the bottom of the web page and link it to your shopping cart for that particular item. Then save that page as ‘new product name’ and you’re done.​

Then all you have to do is keep using that same web page template for each product page over and over again until you’ve made a page for each computer hardware or software product you’re going to sell.

After a while it becomes routine and it’s as simply as:

>Remove old image and old product text.>Insert new image and new product text.>Insert new link to ‘Buy now’ button for that item in the shopping cart.>Save page as ‘new-product-name’ and you’re done.​

​Building a computer reseller web site from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated.

All you have to do is build the first page and then use that same web page as a template over and over again for the rest of your web pages. And by the time you know it, you’ll become a web design expert.​